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Focusing on the “new man” in Christ, this study sets forth the theological and anthropological basis for the doctrine of deification as expounded by St. Gregory Palamas (1296–1359), the greatest theologian of the later Byzantine period. Georgios I. Mantzaridis explains that for Palamas and the Fathers, the term “spiritual” does not denote an abstraction, but characterizes the new man, born...

Mantzaridis, in his book Palamika (Thessalonike, 1973), pp. 149–304. For the English translation the author has kindly supplied revisions to the footnotes. While the text of the Greek original has been translated in full, some footnotes are slightly abbreviated. The bibliography has also been shortened: specialists may consult the ten-page bibliography in Palamika, pp. 295–304, as also those provided by Meyendorff, Introduction, pp. 15–22, and by D. Stiernon, “Bulletin sur le palamisme,” Revue des
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